Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Pearl

ESPN called it hideous. I asked Coach Mears for his permission and he gave me his blessing. I plan on wearing it for the Kentucky and Vanderbilt games because they were Tennessee's two biggest rivals when he was there.

Even before the movie was such a big hit, we asked (Focus Features) for memorabilia. Next thing we knew we had the icon. We had no idea it would raise $100,000. Not in our wildest dreams.

Even before 9/11, if you asked people what the major foreign policy principles were, one that always scored high was stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

First of all we need to know how much money do they want, and why are they demanding the money. They haven't asked for money.

First off, he shoots two people who are unarmed. He shoots Seth in the back first. Everything that he did is cowardly. And then when asked by (BCA Agent) Ken McDonald, he turns around and says 'Oh, they were teasing me.' Just like a true bully would do.

First of all, I haven't been asked to do next year.

First of all he's never asked to be with his father, and second of all as a 6-year-old that would want to be with his father would cry by the night, would have nightmares, would ask for his father. To this point he hasn't. ... as he's done ever since the day he met me and asked me to stay with him that night in the hospital, I asked him, do you want to go back with your father, and his words were no.

FEMA has asked us for temporary housing land that we have available.

Bryan Robson

Every time we had free-kicks the lads said they had to wait for the whistle but, when Gareth Barry asked to take it quickly, he could, so there seemed to be one rule for one team and one rule for the other.

Robert Moore

Everything we could've ever asked for, they've done.

Amy Johnson

Every year I sent her stuff for our camps and asked her to come out. Her mom just called out of the blue and said she was going to come out.

The results seems to be a matter of memory. We asked people to name the century's best male and female singers and for some their memories didn't extend back more than a decade or a year.

Earl Barron

Every day they asked us about practice, flights, hotels, off-the-court stuff, everything. I said, 'Everybody on the team is cool, everybody's down to earth. Shaq, I told them he was funny. Everybody already heard that. I told them practice was hard, the flights were cool, hotels were top-of-the-line.

As soon as we told people what we're doing, they asked what they could do, ... It's neat to see people get together to use their skills to help those in need.

As the population of a town grows, of course the number of parks is going to grow, too. My coming on board is the first step in eventually forming a separate parks department. But first, I need to learn where all the parks are. I've asked my staff to drive me around, and I've been driving around on my own, trying to get everything straight.

As to the memo, I knew nothing about it other than a Post journalist had told me there was one circulating which he characterized as having been written by somebody who was not at the meeting where I was asked if I would be willing to go to Niger.

As to the details which you asked about, I don't know. But I want to stress that the relevant departments in China responsible for the case will try the case in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations.

At our request, we have asked the federal government to create a unit on unsolved Civil Rights murders before 1970, which is why we must care. There are those who believe that since the two men are dead that it should be left alone, why dredge up the past, that attitudes are better.

Shahid Afridi

At one stage, when I was going hard at them, Kumble asked me where should he bowl to me he was so frustrated.

At that point my community and my family asked me to work on this because we were drastically affected. Our traditional hunting grounds were flooded and our Indian land rights were extinguished. I had this duty to do something about the unilateral extinguishment of our rights.

At that meeting they asked if they could do another (safety check) at Coolidge,

At the end I asked them a rhetorical question: 'We still have work to do right?' ... But I believe we're getting better. The spirit is excellent. I'm not sure what the psychological effect of a fourth tie would be. Certainly there's joy and pride in any win at all, but to do it in this fashion is extra special.

Al Sharpton

At the Apollo, he asked me to come and stand in for him. He's like my father.

Harry Redknapp

At no stage did I ever swear. I just said to the fourth official, asked him why the goal was allowed. He said - how you would talk to a six-year-old at school if you were a schoolteacher - to sit down,

Bill Griffith

At this point, it's just kind of a long tradition to help with this auction and help Adele out. I've been there as long as its been going. It was a fast 20 years. I would do anything she asked me to do.

At the time, the suspect asked the two bank employees who the manager was, and one of the individuals told the suspect that she was the manager,

At the time, there was a group in town called VSA Arts, and they wanted to launch classes for people with disabilities. I attended a workshop they were conducting and was asked to teach lessons.

At the start of this season, we asked the kids if they wanted to swim as Royal Oak, or if they wanted to be known as the Ravens. They preferred to be Royal Oak for one more season.

Cheryl Lynn

At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

Conservatives want someone with a clear, written record. The Roberts hearing has been superb as a technical, tactical matter, but it's left some people in despair and just clamoring for someone with a written record. The left keeps asking, 'What does the right know that we don't know?' Well the truth of the matter is, we don't know anything. We're all being asked to take a leap of faith.

Diogenes

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world

Jim Tressel

Dick LeBeau is the father of the zone blitz, and that's what we are. So everything he's asked to do there, he will have done a million times. That's better than somebody saying, 'Let me take him,' and then be in the wrong system. He's in the perfect system.

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